Okay, so, there is no excuse, but...

Hehe, guess what, everybody! I moved!

That's right, at the age of eighteen, I moved out of my parents house and across the country...to live with my brother, his wife, their baby, and my sister.

So, it's not exactly like moving out completely. It's still family. But I don't have my parents with me, so it's kinda weird. I have to do things like buy groceries and toilet paper and do my own laundry all the time. Weird, huh? But really, it's been pretty fun. I miss my family, but this is a good experience. I had to learn to take care of myself sometime, right? My evenings have filled up remarkably fast. I've been here less than two weeks, and I have activities monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, as well as some Tuesdays. Daytime, however, is seriously slow. Today I watched "The Price is Right" and ate lunch alone, then messed around on the computer, and finally worked a little more on unpacking and organizing. But that's okay, cause there is always someone to hang out with in the evening, or something to do.

So, my new life is a lot like the one I left behind back in '07, but a few things have changed. For one, everyone is all grown up, including me. And two, I now have a wonderful boyfriend who likes to visit me on the weekends, and bring Reese's for me. Yeah, couldn't get much better than that, could it? Anyway, this new phase in my life should be pretty interesting, and I'll be sure to let you all know about it as it happens...and, of course, make it sound a lot more awesome than it actually is to make myself feel better. :)

Gadgets

Has anyone ever stopped to look at the amazing assortment of gadgets available to put on your blog? I spent way too much time looking at all of these, only to discover that most are completely useless...and kind of creepy. Between Donald Trump Quote of the Day and Beautiful Sunset Pictures, I got a little giggly. Because the things that truly amuse people are kind of scary. For instance, this is the description of, I'm not kidding, Adorable Babies. "The most adorable babies! A beautiful rotating slide show of 10 random baby photos at a time."

Can you say, 'creepy?' Seriously! Who does that! I mean, babies are cute and all, but aren't they the cutest when you, say, actually know the parents of these babies? You know they are weird pictures, like the ones where Baby has a Christmas Bow on her bottom, or is dressed up as some sort of fruit or vegetable. Sweet, when you, again, have some sort of relationship to said baby. But when it's some stranger's baby? I'm not so sure.

The example picture shows a darling, naked infant with a tag saying, "From God." How sweet. How frightening.

You know, these kids are totally gonna hate their parents for this someday. It's totally creepy.

The Birthday Blog

Thursday was my 18th birthday...yay! Here is a collection of my thoughts on the last couple of days. Warning: Birthday Beth(Hereafter referred to as BB) is even more impossibly shallow than average, everyday Beth. Just so you know.

Birthday Thought #1, dated last Sunday) BB: Hmm. My birthday is on Thursday. I'd better start milking it for all it's worth..."Joel, will you get me a soda? . . . It's my birthday."

Birthday Thought #2, a couple days before B-day) BB: I wonder how long I can make my special birthday privileges last. The day after? A couple days?
Mom: Beth, I'm so sorry, but we're going to be pretty busy on your birthday...we'll have to spread out the celebration. I'm sorry!
BB: It's fine, mom. It's just a birthday. (secretly, in her head,) Yup, looks like I just secured at LEAST a couple extra days of birthday spoiling. Awesome!

Birthday Thought #3, B-day) BB: It's my birthday. That means I get to do whatever I want, right? Cool!

Birthday Thought #4, Day after B-day) BB: You know, I should try to be less shallow...because seriously, I'm a brat...

Not like that's ever stopped me before...


Birthday Thought #5, today) BB: 362 days till my birthday!

:)

Okay, so, I know I haven't posted in awhile. But that's because pretty much nothing unusual has happened in the last two months or so. Seriously. But that's okay, because it means nothing awful or crazy happened. But not much awesomeness either. Anyway, last night my dad took us to see "Scrooge, the Musical" at this litte theater in Alexandria. It was....um....interesting.

Scrooge is obviously based on A Christmas Carol. But let me just say that some things are best left in their traditional form...why must we make said story into a musical? The only time that worked was for the Muppets, and that because, well, they're the Muppets. So, for two and a half hours, we watched them try to make Christmas Carol into something new and different, adding boring and unexceptional songs into the mix. The funniest parts included,

1)Scrooge fallin over while trying to take off his shoes, only to pretend that he had meant to.
2)A girl missing the last note in her song, only to be laughed at by the boy she was singing to. Seriously, they just stood there and laughed as they got engaged or whatever.
3)A completely random scene where the toy story window comes to life and the toys dance around for no reason at all

The actor playing scrooge was pretty good...but that didn't make the play itself less painful. Anyway, maybe I'm spoiled by seeing so many actually good plays in my life...but this was not awesome.

Joong-Wong

My mother has been making friends with our Korean neighbors. She tutors the two boys, and Rose and Joel take art classes from their mom. Also, Rose and I take turns "tutoring" the younger boy, Joong-Wong.(I'm not sure if I really spelled that right...but who's going to correct me, really?) "Tutoring" means reading to him and watching this incredibly smart third grader work on spelling words. And then we play Scrabble.

None of this is to help him with his actual school work...his mom just wants him to really love reading. And he doesn't mind spending an extra hour twice a week on spelling and reading. This kid is highly entertaining. I'm reading him this book he brought with him...it's called Gregor, and it's about some weird underworld. The chapter I read today involved giant bats...yeah, it was weird.

Anyway, I just wanted to introduce you all to my new friend Joong-Wong and his family...because I'm sure that there will be more to share about them in the future. :)

I <3 Heroes!

So, the school year has been going on for a several weeks now, and September is almost over. This means Beth is bored. Sure, October is fun in it's own way...but not really till the end, with pumpkins and costumes and all that. Right now it's all kind of...well, blah.

Well, thank goodness prime time television has come to the rescue! Heroes is starting tonight, and Joel and I await this evening quite anxiously. Is Nikki really dead?(please, please let her be dead...) Will Peter save the day? Will Claire become less annoying and cheerleader-y?

Let me explain myself. In the last few years, I have watched very little television. There was nothing very worth taking the time to watch, and ballet classes were always in the evenings when I would normally be watching TV. So I didn't mind, I liked the fact that I was not bound to the television every weekday night. Also, I hate jumping in the middle of a series that has been going on for awhile. I like to know what's happening.

Then that whole writers' strike thing happened. And there was no TV for months. And I didn't dance anymore...giving me lots of time to check out station websites and catch up on a lot of TV...

Which means that this fall, I am excited for Heroes, Pushing Daisies, Chuck, and The Office, among...even more worthless TV. How exciting. At least now I have something to do with my time...

Yeah, you can say it. I should find something better to do, and to write about...:)

A Day in the Life...

So I guess life has slowed down a lot...because here is my daily schedule. (Some variation as to order, but that's about it.)

1. Wake up late.
2. Eat some sort of sugar filled breakfast cereal.
3. School. This usually lasts me about 3 hours. Yeah...it's easy.
4. Eat Lunch.
5. Take a nap. Seriously...every day.
6. Play games on the computer with Joel. (Zoo Tycoon. We built a Zoo. It's very realistic, except for the Saber-Toothed Cats.)
7. Read a book/bug my siblings while waiting for my dad to get home.
8. Eat dinner. At dinner, we share something that we read about in the paper that day. It's very enlightening, especially since Rose's story today is about Taylor Swift, Joel's is about Legos, and mine is about a public race track where people can bring there own cars and train to drive 200 mph through a twisting track. All for the low, low price of $200. Cool, right?
9. Play games on my dad's computer until my boyfriend calls.
10. Go to sleep.

And then Repeat, with the small variation of going to church on Sundays and Wednesdays.

So I think what we've established here is...I need a life. And soon.